Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: David J. Kreps Finnemann Reviewer: Pil Lindgreen Kristensen

So, I'm an artist.

Okay, jeg er kunstner.

I live in New York, and I've been working in advertising

Jeg bor i New York, og jeg har arbejdet i reklamebranchen

for -- ever since I left school,

i -- lige siden jeg kom ud af skolen,

so about seven, eight years now,

det vil sige i cirka syv, otte år,

and it was draining.

og det var opslidende.

I worked a lot of late nights. I worked a lot of weekends,

Jeg arbejdede mange sene nætter. Jeg arbejdede mange weekender,

and I found myself never having time for all the projects

og jeg opdagede at jeg aldrig havde tid til alle de projekter

that I wanted to work on on my own.

som jeg selv havde lyst til at arbejde på.

And one day I was at work and I saw a talk

Og så en dag var jeg på arbejde og så et foredrag

by Stefan Sagmeister on TED,

af Stefan Sagmeister på TED,

and it was called "The power of time off,"

og det hed "Vigtigheden af at holde fri,"

and he spoke about how every seven years,

og han talte om hvordan han hvert syvende år

he takes a year off from work so he could

tager et år fri fra arbejde så han kan lave sine egne kreative projekter

do his own creative projects, and I was instantly inspired,

og jeg blev inspireret omgående og jeg sagde bare,

and I just said, "I have to do that. I have to take a year off.

"Det må jeg gøre. Jeg bliver nødt til tage et år fri.

I need to take time to travel and spend time with my family

Jeg skal tage tid til at rejse og tilbringe tid med min familie

and start my own creative ideas."

og starte mine egne kreative ideer."

So the first of those projects ended up being

Så det første af de projekter endte med at være

something I called "One Second Every Day."

noget jeg kaldte "Et Sekund Hver Dag"

Basically I'm recording one second of every day of my life

Dybest set optager jeg et sekund af hver dag af mit liv

for the rest of my life,

i resten af mit liv,

chronologically compiling these one-second

og samler kronologisk disse ét sekunders

tiny slices of my life into one single continuous video

bittesmå bidder af mit liv til én eneste fortløbende video

until, you know, I can't record them anymore.

indtil jeg en dag ikke kan optage mere.

The purpose of this project is, one:

Målet med dette projekt er, for det første:

I hate not remembering things that I've done in the past.

jeg hader ikke at kunne huske de ting jeg har lavet tidligere.

There's all these things that I've done with my life

Der er alle mulige ting jeg har gjort i løbet af mit liv

that I have no recollection of

som jeg slet ikke har nogen erindring om

unless someone brings it up, and sometimes I think,

medmindre nogen nævner det, og nogle gange tænker jeg,

"Oh yeah, that's something that I did."

"Nå ja, det gjorde jeg faktisk."

And something that I realized early on in the project

Og noget jeg opdagede tidligt i dette projekt

was that if I wasn't doing anything interesting,

var at hvis jeg ikke lavede noget interessant,

I would probably forget to record the video.

glemte jeg sikkert at optage video den dag.

So the day -- the first time that I forgot, it really hurt me,

Så dagen -- den første gang jeg glemte det, blev jeg virkelig ked af det,

because it's something that I really wanted to --

fordi det er noget jeg virkelig gerne ville gøre --

from the moment that I turned 30, I wanted

fra det øjeblik at jeg blev 30,

to keep this project going until forever,

ville jeg gerne holde dette projekt kørende hele livet,

and having missed that one second, I realized,

og at mangle det ene sekund, blev jeg klar over,

it just kind of created this thing in my head

skabte en mekanisme i mit hoved

where I never forgot ever again.

så jeg aldrig nogensinde glemmer det igen.

So if I live to see 80 years of age,

Så hvis jeg bliver 80 år gammel,

I'm going to have a five-hour video

har jeg en fem timers video

that encapsulates 50 years of my life.

der sammenfatter 50 år af mit liv.

When I turn 40, I'll have a one-hour video

Når jeg bliver 40, har jeg en en-times video

that includes just my 30s.

der alene sammenfatter mit liv i trediverne.

This has really

Dette har virkelig oplivet mig fra dag til dag,

invigorated me day-to-day, when I wake up,

og gør at jeg, når jeg vågner, altid prøver

to try and do something interesting with my day.

at gøre noget interessant med min dag.

Now, one of the things that I have issues with is that,

En af de ting som jeg virkelig har et problem med

as the days and weeks and months go by,

er at i takt med at dagene og ugerne og månederne går,

time just seems to start blurring

er det som om tiden bare flyder sammen

and blending into each other

og skellene udhviskes

and, you know, I hated that,

og det hadede jeg virkelig.

and visualization is the way to trigger memory.

og visualisering er måden til at sætte gang i hukommelsen.

You know, this project for me is a way for me

Dette projekt er en måde for mig

to bridge that gap and remember everything that I've done.

at slå bro over det mellemrum og huske alt jeg har lavet.

Even just this one second allows me to remember

Bare dette sekund tillader mig at huske

everything else I did that one day.

alt andet jeg gjorde den dag.

It's difficult, sometimes, to pick that one second.

Det er svært, nogle gange, at vælge det ene sekund.

On a good day, I'll have maybe three or four seconds

På en god dag, har jeg måske tre eller fire sekunder

that I really want to choose,

som jeg virkelig gerne vil vælge,

but I'll just have to narrow it down to one,

men jeg skal bare vælge en,

but even narrowing it down to that one allows me

og faktisk, selv det at vælge det ene sekund

to remember the other three anyway.

tillader mig at huske de tre andre alligevel.

It's also kind of a protest, a personal protest,

Det er også en form for protest, en personlig protest,

against the culture we have now where people

imod den kultur som vi nu har, hvor mennesker

just are at concerts with their cell phones out

bare er til koncerter med deres mobiltelefon fremme

recording the whole concert, and they're disturbing you.

og optager hele koncerten, og de forstyrrer en.

They're not even enjoying the show.

De nyder ikke engang det der foregår på scenen.

They're watching the concert through their cell phone.

De ser koncerten gennem deres mobiltelefon.

I hate that. I admittedly used to be that guy a little bit,

Det hader jeg. Jeg indrømmer at jeg plejede at være den fyr en smule engang,

back in the day, and I've decided that the best way

og jeg har besluttet, at den bedste metode til at

for me to still capture and keep a visual memory of my life

fange og beholde et visuelt minde for resten af livet,

and not be that person, is to just record that one second

- og ikke være den person med mobiltelefonen - er bare at optage det ene sekund

that will allow me to trigger that memory of,

som kan sætte mindet i gang:

"Yeah, that concert was amazing. I really loved that concert."

"Ja, den koncert var fantastisk. Jeg elskede virkelig den koncert."

And it just takes a quick, quick second.

Og det tager kun et kort, kort sekund.

I was on a three-month road trip this summer.

Jeg var på en tre måneders biltur denne sommer.

It was something that I've been dreaming about doing my whole life,

Det var noget jeg har drømt om at gøre hele mit liv,

just driving around the U.S. and Canada

bare køre rundt i USA og Canada

and just figuring out where to go the next day,

og bare finde ud af hvor jeg skulle hen den næste dag,

and it was kind of outstanding.

og det var på en måde enestående.

I actually ran out, I spent too much money on my road trip

Jeg løb faktisk tør, jeg brugte for mange penge på min biltur

for the savings that I had to take my year off,

i forhold til den opsparing jeg havde til at holde et år fri,

so I had to, I went to Seattle and I spent some time

så jeg tog til Seattle og jeg tilbragte noget tid

with friends working on a really neat project.

med venner der arbejdede på et virkelig fedt projekt.

One of the reasons that I took my year off was to spend more time with my family,

En af grundene til jeg tog et års fri var at tilbringe mere tid med min familie,

and this really tragic thing happened where

og denne virkelig tragiske ting skete hvor

my sister-in-law,

min svigerinde,

her intestine suddenly strangled one day,

pludselig fik hun alvorlige maveproblemer en dag,

and we took her to the emergency room,

og vi bragte hende til skadestuen,

and she was, she was in really bad shape.

og det så virkelig skidt ud med hende.

We almost lost her a couple of times,

Vi mistede hende næsten et par gange,

and I was there with my brother every day.

og jeg var der sammen med min bror hver dag.

It helped me realize something else during this project,

Det hjalp mig med at indse noget andet i løbet af dette projekt,

is that recording that one second on a really bad day

nemlig at optage det ene sekund på en virkelig dårlig dag

is extremely difficult.

er ekstremt svært.

It's not -- we tend to take our cameras out when we're doing awesome things.

Det er ikke -- vi har en tendens til at hive vores kamera frem når vi laver fede ting.

Or we're, "Oh, yeah, this party, let me take a picture."

Eller vi tænker, "Jeg er til en fest, lad mig tage et billede."

But we rarely do that when we're having a bad day,

Men det gør vi sjældent når vi har en dårlig dag,

and something horrible is happening.

og der lige er sket noget forfærdeligt.

And I found that it's actually been very, very important

Og jeg fandt ud af at det faktisk har været meget, meget vigtigt

to record even just that one second of a really bad moment.

at optage selv det ene sekund af et virkelig dårligt øjeblik.

It really helps you appreciate the good times.

Det hjælper virkelig en med at værdsætte de gode tider.

It's not always a good day, so when you have a bad one,

Det er ikke altid en god dag, så når man har en dårlig en,

I think it's important to remember it,

mener jeg det er vigtigt at huske den,

just as much as it is important to remember the [good] days.

lige så vel som det er vigtigt at huske de gode dage.

Now one of the things that I do is I don't use any filters,

En af de ting jeg gør, er at jeg ikke bruger filtre,

I don't use anything to -- I try to capture the moment

jeg bruger ikke noget til at -- jeg prøver at fange øjeblikket

as much as possible as the way that I saw it with my own eyes.

så meget som muligt som den måde jeg så det med mine egne øjne på.

I started a rule of first person perspective.

Jeg startede en regel om første persons perspektiv.

Early on, I think I had a couple of videos where

Ret tidligt i projektet havde jeg et par filmklip

you would see me in it, but I realized that wasn't the way to go.

hvor man kunne se mig, men jeg blev klar over at det ikke var måden at gøre det på.

The way to really remember what I saw

Vejen til virkelig at huske det jeg så

was to record it as I actually saw it.

var at optage det som jeg faktisk så det.

Now a couple of things that I have in my head about this project are,

Blandt de ting jeg tænker om dette projekt er

wouldn't it be interesting if thousands of people were doing this?

ville det ikke være interessant hvis tusindevis af mennesker gjorde det samme?

I turned 31 last week, which is there.

Jeg blev 31 sidste uge, som I kan se lige dér.

I think it would be interesting to see

Jeg tror det vil være interessant at se

what everyone did with a project like this.

hvad alle ville gøre med et projekt som dette.

I think everyone would have a different interpretation of it.

Jeg tror alle ville lave forskellige versioner af det.

I think everyone would benefit from just having that one second to remember every day.

Jeg tror alle ville have gavn af at have bare et sekund de skulle huske hver dag.

Personally, I'm tired of forgetting,

Personligt er jeg træt af at glemme,

and this is a really easy thing to do.

og dette er en virkelig nem ting at gøre.

I mean, we all have HD-capable cameras in our pockets right now --

Jeg mener, vi har alle kameraer i lommen der er i stand til at optage i HD --

most people in this room, I bet --

de fleste mennesker i lokalet, vil jeg vædde med --

and it's something that's --

og det er noget der --

I never want to forget another day that I've ever lived,

jeg vil aldrig glemme endnu en dag som jeg har levet,

and this is my way of doing that,

og dette er min måde at gøre det på,

and it'd be really interesting also to see,

og det ville også være rigtig interessant at se,

if you could just type in on a website,

hvis man bare kunne taste det ind på en hjemmeside,

"June 18, 2018,"

"18 juni, 2018,"

and you would just see a stream of people's lives

og man så ville se en strøm af menneskers liv

on that particular day from all over the world.

på den bestemte dag fra hele verden.

And I don't know, I think this project has a lot of possibilities,

Og ja, jeg ved det ikke, men jeg mener dette projekt har mange muligheder,

and I encourage you all to record just a small snippet of your life every day,

og jeg opfordrer jer alle til at optage bare en lille bid af hver dag af jeres liv,

so you can never forget that that day, you lived.

så man aldrig glemmer at man levede den dag.

Thank you.

Tak.

(Applause)

(Bifald)